A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...
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A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...
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Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
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London :: Printed by A.M., T.W. and S.G. for Joshua Kirton,
1655.
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Bible. -- N.T. -- Hebrews -- Commentaries.
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"A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41670.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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§. 102. Of the resolution of the seventh verse.
Verse 7.
And of the Angels he saith, Who maketh his Angels Spirits, and his Mini∣sters a flame of fire.
IN this verse is laid down the second Argument whereby the Apostle proveth An∣gels to be inferiour to Christ, and thereupon Christ to be more excellent then Angels; The Argument may be thus framed: They who are made Spirits and Mi∣nisters are inferiour to him that made him so.
But Angels are made Spirits and Ministers by Christ.Therefore Angels are inferiour to Christ.That Angels are so made, is in expresse terms set down:That Christ made them so is implied in this phrase, Who maketh; For it hath re∣ference to the last clause of the second verse.The summe of this verse is, a description of Angels.
Two Points are observable therein.
1. The connexion of this verse with the former in this phrase, And of the Angels he saith.
2. The description it self; This consists of two parts.
The first sets down the nature of Angels, Spirits.The second, their Office, Ministers.
Both those are amplified,
1. By their principall efficient, the Sonne of God, Who made them.
2. By their quality, in this Metaphor, a flame of fire.